Bill Text: TX SJR49 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment on professional sports team charitable foundations conducting charitable raffles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-16 - Referred to State Affairs [SJR49 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SJR49-Introduced.html
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By: Hinojosa | S.J.R. No. 49 |
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proposing a constitutional amendment on professional sports team | ||
charitable foundations conducting charitable raffles. | ||
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 47(d-1), Article III, Texas | ||
Constitution, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(d-1) The legislature by general law may permit a | ||
professional sports team charitable foundation to conduct | ||
charitable raffles under the terms and conditions imposed by | ||
general law. The law may authorize the charitable foundation to pay | ||
with the raffle proceeds reasonable advertising, promotional, and | ||
administrative expenses. A law enacted under this subsection | ||
applies [ |
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professional sports team charitable foundation under that law [ |
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conducted at games hosted at the home venue of the professional | ||
sports team associated with a professional sports team charitable | ||
foundation. | ||
SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 2017. | ||
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
proposition: "The constitutional amendment on professional sports | ||
team charitable foundations conducting charitable raffles." |